Danger - Beatles Book.
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Nobody seems to want a real Beatles book.... I mean a real one, but that's what I'm writing. Sorry! Geesuz it's like quicksand yknow. This is the only notice I'm posting online, anywhere. I managed to get banned from the flabFour forum, but that's not the place for this, and maybe the Macca board isn't either. Still, it's coming out, one way or another. The backwards stuff is the real reason, it can't be ignored, it's there, and it's the proof if anyone needs it. The names are there ... they obviously wanted it to come out eventually. There are no scary revelations, not particularly, just a lot of what really went on in my little part of Beatlemania. Okay? J10 jtheriffer@hotmail.com
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I'm not sure what you mean about "the backwards stuff", but a very wise man once told me: "...Coincidences are exactly that." Sometimes it takes years to read between the lines. Another unauthorized, unapproved book is not what I have been hoping for, but fair play to you and all that. These are people's lives we're talking about...we simply can't know why certain things remain undisclosed. But they are entitled to remain so. As for myself, I shall simply let it be
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As for me reading another Beatles book it must be written by someone who was actually there. I think there was a book written by The Beatles' former sound engineer Geoff Emerick, that came out a couple of years ago. I haven't read it yet but I would like to.
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Yuhp. You can't believe that anyone could actually tell the truth - just because they were there - I hope? The Geoff book is a nice break from the hype, it's an in-the-studio book, lots of info. But nothing to do with the so-called 'truth' about da Four. Backwards means backwards duh. Like Crowley but without the culty crap attached. It's all there, and if it isn't interpreted properly, by someone who was there, it will all be deliberately misinterpreted, again, and any lucre will end up in the same pockets, again, and the crime can go on. Then you will all end up with a corporate version of the truth, which will solidify as the last of us die off, and bad guys win.
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...sooner or later it becomes the truth. Fair play and good on ya. If you plan to write a Hank Bordowitz type of book which is respectful, I just might be interested in reading it. If you plan a book filled with gossip and that sort of thing, which perhaps a seventh-grader should not read without a suitable warning, then I would not. I wanted information about the music, which it took me almost twenty years to find. When I found "Recording Sessions," it became my "Beatles Bible". I carried it around with me, so important were the revelations it contained....So much so that I later reasoned I should perhaps be treating the Holy Bible with the same respect. John Lennon may have suffered greatly (and needlessly, IMHO) for his comments in this regard, but I feel quite lucky to have benefited from the underlying wisdom inherent in his use of irony. Which I guess even fewer people understand anymore--if they ever did. It would seem that he put all this into a song, which he lifted from Chuck Berry. In no way was it a premonition, as I've never thought that. Just self-expression of things he had been going through, even though I didn't realize at the time I first heard it. I thought he was just scat-singing. It sounded ominous and defiant, and therefore a bit scary. But that was in 1988, on a primitive record player. And long before the availability of a great many wetware updates, from a trusted source, if you will. You might say, I couldn't catch him...or his use of humour to defuse an otherwise tense situation. Especially when you're not sure to whom you're speaking. The anonymity of the internet is indeed a blessing, but can also be a curse, I've since learned...
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I'm reading Allen Klein ... by Fred Goodman. It came out in July. I often wonder as I read how he came up with some of his statements and details, though he has lots of end notes. From what perspective will you write? What will you have as your major focus? I edited a book last summer about which, as a former teacher, I could question or correct, with the authors' permission, certain statements that the authors made. They were grateful for the input. As a long-time Beatles' fan, I'm going to be doing the same thing in my mind when I read your book. I need to know your relationship with the four before I give credence to what you write. That's just human nature. So, just curious about what needs to be put out there before the wrong people get hold of it. Is your book an attempt to defend them, protect them, or other?
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Jack Matthews:
Nobody seems to want a real Beatles book.... I managed to get banned from the flabFour forum.
FLABFour forum? I'm seeing three clues about your book here.
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Right. All the drama.
